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Literator, 2018 The meaning of words comes into play when words as units of translation are to be translated from one language into another. Lexical items that are extant in one language but not in others pose enormous problems for translators.
Mthikazi Rose Masubelele
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The “exotic” nature of ideophones –from Khoekhoe to Xhosa
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 The present paper analyzes the exoticness of Khoekhoe-sourced ideophones as a possible factor that stimulated the introduction of certain phonological novelties to the sound system of Xhosa.
Andrason, Alexander
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Journal of African Languages and LinguisticsThis paper discusses ideophonicity in Gizey (Chadic), viz., the ability of a word to depict sensory experiences. The term “ideophone” is frequently attested in the Gizey literature. While ideophones are classified as a separate word class (part-of-speech)
Guillaume Guitang
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Ideophones in Sena (Bantu, Mozambique)
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsBased on a recently collected fieldwork corpus, this paper offers an overview of ideophones in Sena, a Bantu language spoken along the Lower Zambezi River in central Mozambique.
Rozenn Guérois
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Crossmodal associations with odors have the potential to aid in odor perception and language. In addition, identifying the dimensions that drive odor crossmodal associations may help understand the critical dimensions underlying odor perception more generally.
Laura J. Speed +2 more
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Rhymed Talk and Ideophones: Recovering Extinct Discourse Practices from Russian Realist Fiction
Signs and Society, 2022 This article presents a case for approaching works of nineteenth-century realist fiction as proto-ethnographic documents that contain unique evidence for reconstructing extinct discourse practices.
B. Maslov, T. Nikitina
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Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and ...
Cornelia Ebert +2 more
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Revue des études slaves, 2018 The article discusses the use of particular forms, ‘verbal interjections’, in Russian and Serbian. These forms fall somewhere in between the interjections and verbs and occupy a distinct place in the grammatical systems of these inflected languages.
Irina Kor Chahine, Tanja Milosavljevic
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‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter makes the case for ‘ideophone’ as a comparative concept: a notion that captures a recurrent typological pattern and provides a template for understanding language-specific phenomena that prove similar. It revises an earlier definition to account for the observation that ideophones typically form an open lexical class, and uses insights ...
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The Co-occurrence Tendencies of Motion Ideophones and Motion Verbs: A Quantitative Study in Japanese
Cognitive SemanticsThis paper examines the co-occurrence tendency of motion ideophones with different kinds of motion verbs (Ibarretxe-Antuñano, 2005; Toratani, 2012) as manifested in Japanese.
Y. Matsumoto
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